New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-22
PRINCETON A UNIVERSITY.
p.n,cAt CHANGES IN THE INSTITUTION.

..r,rrs ro BE CONFERRED UPON NONRESIDENT
srupENrs-NEw ELEcTIvEs TO BE TAUGHT.
r,xcrox Juno ol-The Board Of Trustees OF Prince
"a, College, on the unanimous Recommendation Oh 'ne
v.crtv adopted scheme for comforting degrees upon
rasdent students This is marked step In advance
=, the old American college. and forms ono VI
en-. radical changes which make Princeton College
university The degrees thus to DO conferred arc aoo'
NJ scieuce ID sc) and doctor OF philosophy " IL ~ -
science The qualifications aud regulations aro eo'
Mt 9Th ia documents too voluminous ior p"' 49,,
Tn. BOARD further resolved that the educauon" 'sc
,,es of the institution demand the estapshnou' VI
graduate classes In which instruction shaii DO W
80 .,ective subjects that cannot properly De intro
auccd into the undergraduate CURRICULUM ana 70 'no
currcuem OF which may possibly De transferred soho
,ortion Of tho electives now taught In tho Junior
md senior years joint committee OF the Board OF
Trustees and the faculty was appointed WIFE
IN mt the foregoing into operation
This committee will take into consideration the entire
.nbect of existing and proposed electives, and recon-
mend TO the Board their proper distribution as under
graduate and graduate electives it Is to arrange tue
electives into groups under tho three-
heads Of philosophy language and literature ana sciences
studies arranged that any student VINO 30
.,r.. can take all his electives in the same group
II To organize system OF graduate courses providing
nian nv which the graduate electives may be appropr
stey axs such elton as will give them weight and
currency resolved that they have separate place
pubic that Princeton has university courses leading to
Tsss are significant steps the part Of Princeton
Those with the nitric acies OF educational
systems not at once perceive what stride TINS lns.
,1tion is now making, by OF these changes They
virtually transform the college into university and
whether the corporate name be changed oy tho Legsa
TIRE or not the essential characteristics OF university
have been assumed and heuoeforth Princeton Unver-
viii be the has o come to Be
known the designation OF school Of learning win
fixcd curriculum OF required studies leading up to the
Bachelors degree Princeton under the presidency OF
DR. McCOsh, has been gradually undergoing change.
expanding and developing until the present university
system has been evolved.
The old college Of America consisted with some few
variations Of the ha' m.ns posop
ethics pca aS.S sao sf y
French elementary natural hstSry ssa
s9 ss saSeaton wa often Impaired under
AZ these have been retained q. S other aness
which may be called university studies. have been intro
Of a r'G S.e S:tphS:s;
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Archaeology AIcheology As'yran and HOmeric' Egyptian
TS scIEScsNAnaytic Geometry dimensions Differ
entail AS
ironomy Practical Astronomy Laboratory Chemstry phvs
sSsy
torical geography (propOsedl
In LANGUAGE AND LIrERArURR.-Enelish Literature
English Com ION, oSaxon Oratory and stheilc
criticism Higher French Higher man,sanserit' fcda
gogics.
In all, between fifty and sixty branches, which
may be regarded constituting studium
Generate, the old definition Of university
The recommendations OF the Faculty for the admission
of new electives into the college and adopted by
the board include additional In art and arch
oogy English, physics biology. philosophy history po
tical science and historical geography The friends ana
alumni Of Princeton have taken fresh courage IN the al
of the institution understood mat M
MCosh has In his fertile mind variety OF plans Tor
filling out the magnificent frame work devised py MN
and his associates and already we'll developed Prince
University now starts out on new career OF pros
perty aud usefulness aud DIR. MCosh, when ne lays
aside the robes office. will have the satisfaction OF
turnin9 overto his fully equipped comona
ton of schools prepared give instruction in all the
branches taught in either American or European uni
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